We Are the Flag – Alice Walker | The Official Website for American Novelist & Poet

With love, and gratitude, for the beauty and color Sikhs contribute to American life.

If you
Want to show
Your love
For America
Love
Americans
Smile
When you see
One
Flowerlike
His
Turban
Rosepink.

Rejoice
At the
Eagle feather
In a grandfather’s
Braid.

If a sister
Bus rider’s hair
Is
Especially
Nappy
A miracle
In itself
Praise it.

How can there be
Homeless
In a land
So crammed
With houses &
Young children
Sold
As sex snacks
Causing our thoughts
To flinch &
Snag?

Love your country
By loving
Americans.
Love Americans.
Salute the soul
& the body
Of who we
Spectacularly &
Sometimes
Pitifully are.

Love us.

We are
The flag.

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